The Broken Trident
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The Broken Trident is the distinctive national flag of Barbados, featuring a vertical triband of ultramarine and gold with a black trident head symbolizing the nation’s break from its colonial past.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Broken Trident canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6256887 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Broken Trident Context triple: [Flag of Barbados, alsoKnownAs, The Broken Trident]
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A.
Spellbreaker
Spellbreaker is a 1985 interactive fiction text adventure game by Infocom, known for its challenging puzzles and as the concluding installment of the Enchanter trilogy.
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B.
The Broken Tower
The Broken Tower is a late, introspective poem by American modernist poet Hart Crane, often read as a meditation on artistic struggle and personal crisis.
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C.
The Scar
The Scar is a 2002 fantasy novel by China Miéville set in his Bas-Lag universe, following exiles aboard a vast floating pirate city as they pursue a reality-warping leviathan.
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D.
The Turmoil
"The Turmoil" is a 1915 novel by American author Booth Tarkington that explores industrialization, social change, and family conflict in a rapidly modernizing Midwestern city.
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E.
The Thorny Path
The Thorny Path is a painting by 19th-century French artist Thomas Couture, reflecting his characteristic blend of academic technique and moral or allegorical subject matter.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Broken Trident Target entity description: The Broken Trident is the distinctive national flag of Barbados, featuring a vertical triband of ultramarine and gold with a black trident head symbolizing the nation’s break from its colonial past.
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A.
Spellbreaker
Spellbreaker is a 1985 interactive fiction text adventure game by Infocom, known for its challenging puzzles and as the concluding installment of the Enchanter trilogy.
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B.
The Broken Tower
The Broken Tower is a late, introspective poem by American modernist poet Hart Crane, often read as a meditation on artistic struggle and personal crisis.
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C.
The Scar
The Scar is a 2002 fantasy novel by China Miéville set in his Bas-Lag universe, following exiles aboard a vast floating pirate city as they pursue a reality-warping leviathan.
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D.
The Turmoil
"The Turmoil" is a 1915 novel by American author Booth Tarkington that explores industrialization, social change, and family conflict in a rapidly modernizing Midwestern city.
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E.
The Thorny Path
The Thorny Path is a painting by 19th-century French artist Thomas Couture, reflecting his characteristic blend of academic technique and moral or allegorical subject matter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adoptedOn | 1966-11-30 ⓘ |
| adoptionOccasion | independence of Barbados ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Barbadian flag
ⓘ
linked to:
Flag of Barbados
Flag of Barbados ⓘ |
| category |
Flags of the Caribbean
ⓘ
National symbols of Barbados ⓘ |
| centerBandColor | gold ⓘ |
| country | Barbados ⓘ |
| designedBy | Grantley Prescod ⓘ |
| designSelectedBy | national competition ⓘ |
| featuresSymbol |
black trident head
ⓘ
broken trident ⓘ
linked to:
trident
|
| fieldPattern | three equal vertical bands ⓘ |
| hasColor |
black
ⓘ
gold ⓘ ultramarine ⓘ |
| hasDesign | vertical triband ⓘ |
| hasProportion | 2:3 ⓘ |
| leftBandColor | ultramarine ⓘ |
| replaced | British Blue Ensign defaced with Barbados badge ⓘ |
| rightBandColor | ultramarine ⓘ |
| symbolColorMeaning |
black represents the people
ⓘ
gold represents the sand ⓘ ultramarine represents the sea ⓘ ultramarine represents the sky ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Barbadian independence
ⓘ
Barbadian sovereignty ⓘ Barbados ⓘ Barbados’ break from its colonial past ⓘ democratic government ⓘ government by the people ⓘ government for the people ⓘ government of the people ⓘ sand of Barbados’ beaches ⓘ sea surrounding Barbados ⓘ three principles of democracy ⓘ |
| tridentBrokenAt | shaft ⓘ |
| tridentOriginSymbolism |
Neptune’s trident
ⓘ
linked to:
trident of Poseidon
|
| tridentProngsCount | 3 ⓘ |
| usedAs |
civil flag
ⓘ
state flag ⓘ war flag ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Barbadian citizens
ⓘ
Government of Barbados ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: The Broken Trident Description of subject: The Broken Trident is the distinctive national flag of Barbados, featuring a vertical triband of ultramarine and gold with a black trident head symbolizing the nation’s break from its colonial past.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.